Sovereign Haze: Hashish, Trafficking and the Illicit in the Western Mediterranean.

主权阴霾：西地中海的大麻、贩运和非法行为。

• 批准号: ES/T002867/2
• 负责人: Jose Martinez
• 金额: $ 16.56万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT002867%2F2
• 关键词: Sovereign; Haze; Hashish; Trafficking; Illicit

This project seeks to assess how local communities and state authorities relate to the criminal groups that currently participate in the production and trafficking of hashish in Morocco and Spain. While it is well known that rebel groups and separatist movements provide goods and services as a means through which to contest state authority, it is increasingly evident that criminal groups with narrower objectives also govern people and spaces. Nevertheless, these groups rarely challenge the state directly. Instead, they tend to flourish in their interstices, seeking economic and sub-territorial dominion in order to make their economic activities both possible and profitable. Drug-trafficking organisations in particular tend to operate in places where states are seen to be weak or failing. Border regions and marginalised provinces such as the Rif in Morocco and Andalucia in Spain, both of which exhibit amongst the highest levels of unemployment and poverty in their respective countries, have been historically prone to hosting illegal activities (Pack 2019). Spurned by central government policies and incentivised by lucrative neighbouring markets, local communities have often accepted or supported the criminal groups that have turned parts of these regions into hubs for the traffic of hashish (Robins 2016). Who holds the monopoly of legitimate violence in these areas? How do social values and political circumstances shape local perceptions of the drug trade? Through what practices do criminal groups bolster support for their activities? These are the main questions this project seeks to answer.It will do so through a host of qualitative methods including archival work, interviews and participant observation. Data collection will be focused, in each country, on the perspectives of local residents and their interactions with criminal groups and government organizations (see Case for Support). It will draw on the PI's experience conducting research and long-term ethnographic work in the Middle East.The findings of this research will inform a broad academic audience in sociology, political science, geography and history. In scholarly terms, the project will make a major contribution to theories of sovereignty and illicitness, providing new insights into on-going debates regarding the links between corruption, social values and criminal governance. This will be achieved through an examination of how local communities in the Rif and Andalucia region relate to criminal groups involved in production and trafficking of hashish. Academic contributions will be delivered through scholarly articles, conference presentations, and a monograph. By encouraging a dialogue about the nature of drug trafficking and its links to local communities in the Rif and Andalucia, the project also seeks to improve development and crime prevention policies in these two countries. This will be achieved through a) research design and knowledge exchange workshops in Spain and Morocco b) op-eds in major media outlets in several languages c) a best practices guide that can be used by government agencies and policing bodies in the future.The potential applications of the project stretch far beyond the two countries under study. As drug trafficking and criminal networks are mutating around the world, presenting new risks for a wide variety of governments, it is more urgent than ever to understand their operations, the types of governance they provide and the forms of social order they seek to enshrine.

该项目旨在评估当地社区和国家当局与目前在摩洛哥和西班牙参与生产和贩运大麻的犯罪集团之间的关系。虽然众所周知，反叛团体和分离主义运动提供商品和服务，以此作为争夺国家权威的手段，但越来越明显的是，目标较窄的犯罪团体也统治着人和空间。然而，这些组织很少直接挑战国家。相反，他们倾向于在他们的空隙中蓬勃发展，寻求经济和区域统治，以便使他们的经济活动既可能又有利可图。贩毒组织尤其倾向于在国家被认为软弱或失败的地方运作。边境地区和边缘省份，如摩洛哥的Rif和西班牙的Andalucia，都是各自国家失业率和贫困率最高的地区之一，历史上一直容易举办非法活动(Pack 2019)。在中央政府政策的排斥和利润丰厚的邻近市场的刺激下，当地社区往往接受或支持犯罪集团，这些犯罪集团将这些地区的部分地区变成了大麻交易的中心(Robins 2016)。谁垄断了这些地区的合法暴力？社会价值观和政治环境如何塑造当地人对毒品贸易的看法？犯罪集团通过哪些做法加强对其活动的支持？这些都是这个项目试图回答的主要问题，它将通过一系列定性的方法来回答，包括档案工作、访谈和参与者观察。在每个国家，数据收集将侧重于当地居民的观点以及他们与犯罪集团和政府组织的互动(见案例支持)。它将借鉴国际和平协会在中东进行研究和长期的民族志工作的经验。这项研究的结果将向社会学、政治学、地理学和历史学的广大学术受众提供信息。在学术方面，该项目将对主权和不正当理论做出重大贡献，为正在进行的关于腐败、社会价值观和刑事治理之间的联系的辩论提供新的见解。这将通过审查Rif和Andalucia地区的地方社区与参与生产和贩运大麻的犯罪集团的关系来实现。学术投稿将通过学术文章、会议报告和一本专著来发表。通过鼓励就贩毒的性质及其与Rif和Andalucia当地社区的联系进行对话，该项目还寻求改善这两个国家的发展和预防犯罪政策。这将通过以下方式实现：a)在西班牙和摩洛哥举办研究设计和知识交流讲习班；b)以多种语言在主要媒体上发表专栏文章；c)编写一份可供政府机构和警务机构今后使用的最佳做法指南。随着贩毒和犯罪网络在世界各地发生变化，给各国政府带来新的风险，比以往任何时候都更加迫切地需要了解它们的行动、它们提供的治理类型以及它们试图维护的社会秩序的形式。